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Amos Miller (trombone) Amos started playing the trombone at the age of nine with
John Berry. He proceeded through Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music,
learning with Eric Crees, Denis Wick and Ian Bousfield, and playing principal trombone
for the National and European Youth Orchestras. Having gained the Dip.RAM, the Academy's
highest award for performance, he completed the Jazz Course at the Banff Center for
the Arts in Canada, under artists such as Jim Hall and Kenny Wheeler. On leaving
the RAM he was awarded the coveted Meaker fellowship. He now combines the post of
principal trombone with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia (to which he was appointed in 2003)
with a busy freelance career in which he has worked as guest principal trombone with
all the major London orchestras, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, as well as the English Chamber Orchestra, Academy
of St. Martin's, the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Abroad, he has worked with Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt and is guest principal with
the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada in Spain. Amos also has many educational commitments:
in addition to his positions as trombone teacher for the Royal Air Force and St.Paul's
School, he works regularly for the outreach departments of the Engish Chamber and
London Symphony orchestras, and Birmingham Royal Ballet. He is the co-
